setting art(ists) free - from anxiety into irresponsiblity (19 June 2016)

A mistake in judgment isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is.

- Pauline Kael

 

Basquiat, Moses and the Egyptians, 1982

 

Bob and Roberta Smith, The cuts to the Arts Council destroys and undersells British culture, (2011) - article in The Guardian

I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his their vision wherever it takes him them.

- Pauline Kael

Kungkarangkalpa, 2013, by Kunmanara Hogan, Tjaruwa Woods, Yarangka Thomas, Estelle Hogan, Ngalpingka Simms and Myrtle Pennington - Spinifex Arts Project

Melbourne Art Trams, 2013

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

- Pauline Kael